Spend 1 minute at Nikko Circuit backwards, this snippet of video footage is brought to you you by zenky-racing.com and vholdr.com and of course wearedrift.com
The DVD is still set on course for a mid to near end of year release. Drifting seems to be climbing at an amazing pace and if your not entering corners backwards your not trying hard enough. Nikko is a great circuit to find out where the current level of drifting is at. Drivers from all around Japan travel to Nikko so its a real treat to see so many different driving styles.
This year we have another new sponsor, vholdr.com who are the guys responsible for all these cool new camera angles we are now able to capture, we truely have no limits now.
I actually had a sore head and needed to get some fresh air, my camera tagged along and after a 6 hour editing session this is the results.
I really tried to capture interesting patterns created by lights casting through the surrounding objects, I then matched them to the music’s beat. I played with the footage speed increasing and decreasing to suit the song. You might of also noticed the music fading from left to right on your speakers, I played around with some surround sound settings aswell, thought it added a little more to the video.
Its a nice change from filming car events and I cant wait to do more random spur of the moment filming.
The Sony FX7 is ment to be a very poor choice for shooting night footage but I think it came out quite well.
So over the next 2 months we will be heading around Japan and doing some one on one interviews with some big name guys in drifting but also some local boys that just drift on tight budgets and call the mountains there home! We always want to get you guys involved in everything we do so we firgure the best way is asking you to send us a questions you would like to know the answer too!
A couple things first, it cant be some nasty question thats going to make us look like a bunch idiots but it can be funny in nature or serious, anything is cool within reason.
Want to find out if they sleep with their night light on, Well send it in! Or maybe you want to know what they are scared off, Send it in!
1st step : Send us an email to : wearedrift@gmail.com 2nd step : Email subject must me “ask a drifter”. 3rd step : Tell us your question, name and the country your from.
If you question gets picked we will notify you via email and do a shout out on our facebook to let everyone know whats happening.
Not already in our Facebook fan base then get on there by clicking the link below!
First of all we would like to say happy new year from everyone at We Are Drift and to bring us into 2010 we have decided along with Zenky-Racing.com to bring you this exclusive sneak peak.
Featured in this short video is our very own Don AKA Don Vito lead interviewer / translator who will speaking one on one with drivers from all around Japan and the world. In this clip we caught up with top ranking European driver Paul Vlasblom to find out about his experience at the famous Ebisu Drift Matsuri event. Other highlights from the weekend were interviews with, Daigo Saito, Naoto Suenaga, Bomber from Dori Ten and thats just to name a few! (full length interviews featured in the film).
This year we have a new sponsor, Zenky-Racing.com who have jumped on board to help us expand in 2010. Make sure you check out all their great products at Zenky-Racing.com.
Think its time for a change so off to the market my JZX90 goes, I’m looking to send it overseas so if your interested drop me a line at luke@hashiriyaexports.com.
Heres a couple pictures, if you want full specs / pictures and a price just shoot me off an email, no dreamers please!
I can tell you the price is very cheap so if you have cash and your not going to waste my time drop me an email and i will be more then happy to answer any questions you have about my car.
So what a crazy weekend once again in Fukushima, Japan for the Ebisu Drift Matsuri. The weekend started off with a negative vibe forecasted for rain all day Saturday and partly on Sunday but still this did not stop us getting over 40+ plus interviews with the drivers at the event including, Daigo Saito, Naoto Suenaga, Paul Vlasblom from Holland and a heap of Aussie’s and Japanese locals.
The first set of photos below are from a little digi cam Don Vito was using all weekend but stay tuned as the next post will be snap shots taken from my camera of all the close up action, crashes and one on one interviews.
Want to view the full story? Head over to wearedrift.com for the full article.
Stay tuned, on the next post i will show you some snap shots that no one else on the internet will
have, why? Simple, no one else gets as close to the action as we do and im talking about inches from moving cars.
Drifting has been a sport that has been captured and documented in way that has only ever allowed people to see drifting. What this film intends to do is not only to allow people to see the sport and lifestyle of drifting but to feel what drifting is really about through the power of film, to bridge the international gap showing that we all share the same passion and motives.
We put you in the grand stand to watch the action as it unfolds. Drifting is more then just cars its about the people in the sport, the spectators aswell as the drivers.
The full films contents will include :
- Drifting from a spectators point of view
- Special feature interviews with drivers
- Interviews with the community
- Touge mountain drifting with the locals
- Amazing action from local and D1SL grass roots events from around Japan
- Everything the community has asked for but has yet to see in any other film
If you want to voice your thoughts, ideas and show your support jump onto our Facebook fan page via the link below or on your web site
Our filming project is always on the hunt for potential sponsors / endorsements to help our documentary and drifting as a sport grow even larger around the world, if your interested or know anyone who would be drop us a line and we will send you out our in depth business proposal covering every aspect of the project.
Big thanks go out to, Thomas Moore, Al Clark, Josephine Yun and Don Cerny. These are some important people that without their help this documentary will not be possible.
DD : We Are Drift video trailer is finally complete!!!
To celebrate the completion of the offical trailer for the up coming documentary release we are running a competion to show that we are community on Facebook.
10 For 10 is the game, show us that we are a big drift community. The first 10 members of the WeAreDrift.com fan club to invite 10 more new member each will get a special pre-release screening of the trailer before it gets launched live. Once you have 10 fans that have joined send us a personal message with links to their facebook so we can confirm they are infact new fans.
If your wondering why im telling you all to head over to wearedrift.com im about to tell you now!
Basically with all the filming work and daily jobs i have i no longer have the time to update two blogs when i get home from events or filming. So basically i will continue to update this blog but it will be pointing you directly to my new filming project and the progress with the new drift documentary.
You will still get your daily fix of Japan drifting just shared with another site.
If you dont know much about the new project i highly suggest you take a look.
Finally we got the stickers the other day they will be starting to get shipped out early next week! http://fb.me/vSFdcSap http://twitter.com/wearedrift2010/03/25
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